Clinical Study Shows Biological And Clinical Activity In Relapsed Leukemia Patients
Finbarr Cotter, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Barts and The London School of Medicine, today presented in an oral session "Clinical Caspase Activation in CLL by GCS-100: a Phase 2 Study" at the 10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (10-ICML).
Care Charges Risk Leading People With MS Into Poverty, UK
The MS Society is among 18 major organisations to back a new report published, which reveals that rising care charges are putting older and disabled people at risk of not being able to afford to eat, heat, wash or get essential support.
Relocation Process Exacerbates Trauma Of Displaced People In South Africa
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) expressed alarm at the process of relocation imposed on people displaced by recent violence in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nation acirc; Euro sup2;s High School Students Showing Overall Improvements In Health-Related Behaviors
Today^a Euro ^2s high school students are less likely to engage in many health risk behaviors than high school students in the early 1990s, according to the 2007 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Locomotor Training Restores Walking Function In Child With Spinal Cord Injury
A new report shows that a non-ambulatory (unable to walk or stand) child with a cervical spinal cord injury was able to restore basic walking function after intensive locomotor training.
Black Physicians, Those Who Treat Minority Patients Key In Addressing Minority Health Disparities, Opinion Piece Says
"Ethnic health disparities are nothing new. What's concerning is that despite federal initiatives, ...
US Drug Firm To Seek Market Approval For Fampridine
A US drug company will seek marketing approval early next year for a drug which could improve mobility and quality of life for people with multiple sclerosis (MS).Acorda Therapeutics reported positive results following a second phase III clinical trial of the experimental drug Fampridine (4-aminopyridine) which showed improvement in walking speed during a 2-month study.
Daily Women's Health Policy Report Examines Breast Cancer News From ASCO Conference
Several breast cancer-related studies recently were presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago, which began Friday. Summaries appear below.
Legislation Expected To Address Disparities In Medicare Advantage Plan Payments In Florida
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) is expected to introduce legislation this week that would change the way Medicare calculates payments to private health plans in several counties in an effort to address disparities, Florida Health News reports (Jaffe, Florida Health News, 6/2).
Speakers At Second HIV AIDS Implementers' Meeting In Uganda Call For Increased HIV Prevention Efforts
Conference delegates on Tuesday at the opening of the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting in Kampala, Uganda, called on countries to increase HIV prevention methods in order to fight complacency about the disease, Xinhuanet reports.